Alexandra Socarides received her PhD in English from Rutgers University in 2007. Her first book, Dickinson Unbound: Paper, Process, Poetics, was published by Oxford University Press in June 2012. She is currently at work on a new book, which reads antebellum American women's poetry through the tropes, conventions, and postures made possible by the transatlantic literary marketplace. She is also the co-editor of The Poetry of Charles Brockden Brown, which will be published by Bucknell University Press in 2015.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
The Poems (We Think) We Know: Emily Dickinson
“I’m Nobody! Who are you?” Writer Alexandra Socarides teaches us how to play Mad-Libs with Emily Dickinson poems....
The Poems (We Think) We Know: “The Night Before Christmas”
More than a feel-good fantasy of holiday giving...
The Poems (We Think) We Know: “Battle Hymn of the Republic”
The strange history of Howe’s familiar poem Battle Hymn of the Republic....
The Books That Made Us: Little House in the Big Woods
Lessons from Wilder's 'Little House' books....
The Poems (We Think) We Know: “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” by Langston Hughes
On 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers' by Langston Hughes...
The Poems (We Think) We Know: Emma Lazarus’s “The New Colossus”
On Emma Lazarus's "The New Colossus"...
For Emily, Wherever I May Find Her: On Paul Legault’s Emily Dickinson
FIRST THINGS FIRST: It’s a joke. If you don’t get that — that it’s a ...
